Introduction: The power elite on the promenade -- Each one is one in a million: meet the superclass -- Ceteris non paribus: inequality, backlash, and the new order -- Lessons of history: the rise and fall of elites -- The multinational moment: when finance and business became the centre of it all -- Globalists vs. nationalists: political fault line for a new century -- The age of aymmetry: decline of the Titans and the rise of shadow warriors -- The information superclass: the power of ideas -- How to become a member of the superclass: myth, reality, and the psychopathology of success -- The future of the superclass -- and what it may mean for the rest of us